You would think so, its what they get paid for.

Sorry Catwoman but expense plays a big part nowadays...especially the cost of fuel on top of match prices. As a family we have chosen to go to Leeds fri night and support the team, not going to Wigan had nothing to do with not showing our support.

Does anyone have an update on Steve Southern.
Is he injured, is he training, is he going home??

AFAIK he IS injured and he IS NOT going home anytime soon!

Steve Southern is struggling with a calf injury but he is hopefully going to be fit to face Warrington

Steve Southern is struggling with a calf injury but he is hopefully going to be fit to face Warrington

Whatever his problems are he needs to show us more than a few decent hits in the collision to keep the likes of Mariano out.

As I said a couple of weeks ago - met him just after training and he was battered and bruised, carrying two head injuries, a busted finger and a nasty calf injury that meant he had trouble walking.

I'm sure there's nothing sinister going on.

I saw the interview with R.A. and his comments about Steve Southern were very interesting. He seems to acknowledge that there was a fitness issue with Southern and that its been worked on for the last 4 weeks whilst he's been recovering from a calf injury. He more or less stated that Southern will be like a new signing with his much improved fitness levels and has had almost a mini pre-season.

Hopefully Southern will now be used in the second row position within the 17 along with Kirmond and Lauititi against Warrington. Playing him at Prop made him ineffective I think.

I'm sure playing him at prop probably did cause him to be ineffective. That said, he's no line buster as a second row forward either, although if he does get full fitness and demostrates his reputation as a tackling machine then there is a place for him. He is probably the man to 'get in the oppositions faces' and lead by example. That is something we've been lacking this season.

I didn't take that as being unfit, just that he has fittness issues in relation to injuries.

Sorry Richard if i misquoted you.